[Leica] OT: Are we Anal or what? "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: Howabout this one?

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Very good points, Jim.  I refuse to get in the gear race as long as I can 
get reasonable images from my older gear.  If I am smart enough to use it 
correctly,  I will find some satisfying images among the duds.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Laird" <digiratidoc at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 3:24 PM
Subject: [Leica] OT: Are we Anal or what? "The Puddle Jumper" / Re: Howabout 
this one?


> Really? We are worried about whether or not the 'Iwo Jima' shot or the
> HCB 'Puddle Jumper' shot was staged? Really? Are we worried that maybe
> the eyelashes on the guy in the puddle jumper shot might be sharper if
> we shot them with a Nikon D800 vs D800E? Really? Doesn't this seem a
> bit ridiculous to all of you? Maybe a bit anal?
> WHO CARES? They are great photographs. Who cares if they were shot
> with an M4 and a 50mm Collapsible Summicron or an 800E with a Nikkor
> 50 1.4? It's STILL a great photograph, isn't it? I've seen great
> photographs taken with 3.2 MP Minolta cameras that most of us would
> consider pieces of crap, but the photo...a work of art. Beautiful by
> anyone's standards.
> I think we all need to take a deep breath, slow down, and realize once
> and for all that the photograph is what counts. NOT the camera or the
> lens or the film or the memory card or CS5 or LR4 or whatever we used
> to get it. A great photograph stands on its own merit. And we all know
> that the minute we see it. That's what keeps us shooting. We all think
> that someday we might be skilled enough or (in the end) lucky enough
> to be in the right place at the right time with a camera to take a
> photograph that is eternal. Like HCB. He took thousands of
> photographs, many of which were probably NOT keepers. But he kept on
> shooting because he was rich enough or lucky enough to be able to do
> nothing but take photographs, to do the thing that we all love so
> much. God, he makes me so jealous sometimes. We all probably wish we
> could have the chance to do what he did.
> But most of us can't so we think if we buy X lens and Y camera with Z
> processor/computer that maybe we can do what he did, oh god if we only
> could. Really?
>
> Just my humble opinion ;)
>
> Jim Laird
>
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